Ryan Adams – Prisoner: B-Sides (2017) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

This album contains the 17 previously unreleased B-sides included in the elaborate “Prisoner” vinyl box set from Ryan Adams.

It’s hard to make American rock with the epic sweep of Springsteen or Petty and keep it free of bombast. Ryan Adams doesn’t always manage it on Prisoner, his first album since he covered Taylor Swift’s entire 1989 album a couple of years ago, and his first set of original material since 2014.

Ryan Adams’ recent album Prisoner wrung pain and heartbreak from the musician’s threadbare guitar lines, and it turns out he had more in store. Back with 17 tracks that never made the final release, Prisoner B-Sides is a close look at Adams’ songwriting process, revealing the months of work long before he ever went to the studio. At various levels of polish, the tracks are sealed together with Adams’ voice, low and barren atop messy reverb and delay pedals.

Tracklist:
01 – Where Will You Run
02 – Juli
03 – Are You Home
04 – No Words
05 – Halo
06 – It Will Never Be The Same
07 – What If We Were Wrong
08 – Broken Things
09 – Stop You
10 – Hanging On To Hope
11 – Let It Burn
12 – Crazy Now
13 – You Said
14 – Please Help Me
15 – Too Tired To Cry
16 – Stop Talking
17 – Empty Bed
18 – Lookout
19 – The Cold